Episode 55 Eggheads

These people are amongst the greatest quiz players in Britain.

Together, they make up the Eggheads,

arguably the most formidable quiz team in the country.

Question is, can they be beaten?

Welcome to Eggheads, the show where a team of five quiz challengers

pit their wits against possibly the greatest quiz team in Britain.

You might recognise them, as they've won some of the country's toughest quiz shows. They are the Eggheads.

And challenging our resident quiz champions today

are Aurora Borealis from Hull.

Team captain, Adam, has cast his net far and wide to recruit a team,

consisting of his fiancee, his dad, work colleague and family friend to take on the Eggheads.

-Let's meet them.

-Hi. I'm Adam.

I'm 26 and I'm a theology student.

Hi. I'm Sharon. I'm 28 and I'm a pharmacy student.

I'm Mike. 50 years old and I'm a driver.

Hi. I'm Elaine. I'm 50 years old and I'm an outreach project worker.

Hi. I'm Maggie. I'm 48 and I'm a catering assistant.

So, Adam, you've scoured Hull and its surrounding area to put together this crack team

-to try and beat the Eggheads.

-Yeah.

-Tell me about the team name, Aurora Borealis. That's Northern Lights.

Of course, you're from the North and you shine very bright.

Yeah. That's where it comes from.

It's from a programme that Joanna Lumley did about the Northern Lights and it was really cool

and it was just on at the time we were trying to think of our name so it just seemed to fit us quite well

cos we all either come from the North or met there.

Maybe if you win the money, some of it will go towards a trip to see them the Northern Lights for real.

Follow in the footsteps of Joanna Lumley. Right. Let's play the game.

Every day, there's £1,000 worth of cash up for grabs for our challengers.

However, if they fail to defeat the Eggheads, the prize money rolls over to the next show.

So Aurora Borealis, the challengers actually won the last game, proving it can be done.

That means £1,000 says you can't beat the Eggheads.

The first head-to-head battle will be on the subject, then, of Sport.

-Who's your sporting expert, Aurora Borealis?

-Could be me?

Yeah. My dad's going to... Mike's going to go in for this one.

OK. And any Egghead you like at this stage, the opening round.

-CJ?

-Yeah.

-CJ, I think.

CJ...on sport. Let's have Mike and CJ in to the question room, please,

just to make sure you can't confer with your teammates.

-Mike, do you want to go first or second?

-I think I'll go first, please, Dermot.

Good luck, Mike. Here you go.

First question is rugby union.

Which rugby union player who has suffered injuries to his shoulder,

kidney, ankle, groin, arm and adductor muscle

since winning the World Cup, dislocated his knee in 2008? What a list.

I'm thinking

Jonny Wilkinson's the most obvious.

Lawrence Dallaglio, I think he's retired now.

So I'll go for Jonny Wilkinson.

The hero of the 2003 World Cup victory,

but what an injury list since. It is Jonny Wilkinson.

It's the right answer. Well done, Mike.

OK. CJ, who is the only boxer to have knocked out George Foreman

in a professional fight?

I don't know.

It's Joe Frazier.

OK. Well, at least you didn't spend a lot of time over getting it wrong.

It's Muhammad Ali.

Muhammad Ali, which is great news. Mike, it's one-nil to you.

Will go two-nil if you give me a correct answer to this one.

David Ferrer, James Blake and Tommy Robredo are famous names in which sport?

I don't think I've heard of them for tennis.

And I'm not sure about athletics, but I think I'd go for golf.

OK. They're golfers, Blake, Ferrer and Robredo.

CJ, are they?

-They're tennis players.

-They're tennis players, Mike.

I'd say one CJ would have fancied, but you're not getting that, CJ.

You're getting this.

And it's football.

Which French footballer scored the only two goals of his 14-year international career

during his side's 1998 World Cup semi-final victory over Croatia?

What are you asking me for?

I don't know. Laurent Blanc.

Laurent Blanc. And it was... Eggheads?

-It was Thuram, wasn't it?

-Lilian Thuram.

Never heard of...him, presumably?

Yes.

OK. You win the round if you get this, Mike.

In which sport did 22-year-old Londoner James DeGale win a gold medal at the 2008 Olympic Games?

James DeGale.

I believe that was boxing.

-Is that your answer?

-Yes.

Boxing.

You're in the final round. It's the right answer. Well done, Mike.

Two to you. Zero, zilch, nada for CJ.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

Flying start there for Aurora Borealis.

Mike straight through to the final round.

The Eggheads have, of course, just lost CJ.

So we play our next subject now. This is Film & Television.

-Is this what you were looking forward to?

-You want to play this?

-Yes. Yeah.

-OK. We're going to have Maggie have a go at this one.

-Maggie, who would you like from the Eggheads? It can't be CJ.

-Chris.

-It's Maggie against Chris.

OK. Could I ask Maggie and Chris, then, to take their positions in the question room?

Maggie, do you want to go first or second?

I'll go first, please, Dermot.

Maggie, you've decided to kick off. Here's your first question.

Film & Television.

What type of creature is Clint Eastwood's companion, Clyde,

in the 1978 film Every Which Way But Loose?

Think it'd look a bit funny being a donkey.

And I can't see it being a dog.

So I'm going to go for orang-utan.

It is orang-utan. It is the right answer.

OK. Your first question, then, Chris.

Which actor played the role of Sonny Crockett

in the 1980s TV show Miami Vice?

That was Don Johnson.

It is indeed. It's the right answer. OK, Maggie. Second question.

Which actor played the part of Ragetti in the Pirates Of The Caribbean series of films?

Which actor played the part of Ragetti

in the Pirates Of The Caribbean series of films?

Can't see it being Ricky Gervais.

Can't remember Martin Freeman, from what I've seen of him being in it.

-So I'm going to go for Mackenzie Crook.

-Mackenzie Crook.

The one of them in Pirates Of The Caribbean is Mackenzie Crook.

It's the right answer.

Chris, which English monarch is portrayed by Robert Shaw

in the 1966 film A Man For All Seasons?

Well, that's got Paul Scofield as Sir Thomas More,

who was involved in a crisis of conscience over Henry VIII.

So it's Henry VIII.

It's the right answer. Henry VIII is correct.

Two each. OK, Maggie.

Third question. What was the title of Woody Allen's musical

released in the UK in 1997 that starred Drew Barrymore and Edward Norton?

It's one I've never ever seen, so I'm just going to say

-Everyone Says I Love You.

-Everyone Says I Love You.

-Yeah.

-Guess?

-Totally.

-Total guess. Not even an informed guess.

Well, it's a good guess, whatever it is, however we define it.

It's the right answer. Everyone Says I Love You.

And Aurora Borealis love you.

Chris must get this correct to save it.

In 2008, a lawsuit was brought against Steven Spielberg and Dreamworks,

claiming that the plot of the movie Disturbia, starring Shia LaBeouf, was stolen

from which Alfred Hitchcock classic?

I don't know the film Disturbia, but let's deconstruct the question a bit.

I don't think it's Psycho because that is such a standalone thing.

You couldn't really nick the plot

without it being obvious to everybody that you'd nicked it.

Vertigo is Jimmy Stewart with a fear of heights, as a detective.

But if we're talking about disturbing things

that you're not really supposed to see,

this was another Jimmy Stewart film where he was a disabled detective

looking out of his rear window and apparently witnessing a murder.

So I'll say it was lifted from Rear Window,

but that's just me being Sherlock Holmes.

OK. And come up with the right answer.

And that's why he's an Egghead. Very experienced Eggheadery there.

OK. Well, you know what this means, Maggie. We go to sudden death.

We take away the choices now.

So I've just got to hear an answer from you.

Who played the role of Doug Ross in the US TV series, ER?

I'm going to have to pass, Dermot, cos I can't even think.

-I've never watched ER.

-Are you sure, Maggie?

-No. I can't think.

Nothing there. OK, Maggie. When it's gone, it's gone, hasn't it?

It's George Clooney, Maggie. George Clooney.

So a chance for you to win the round, Chris.

Which TV sitcom character is often impersonated with the phrase "Ooh, Betty, the cat's done a whoopsy"?

I read that with feeling, didn't I?

Yeah. That is Michael Crawford's creation, Frank Spencer.

It is Frank Spencer. It's the right answer.

-Can you do it better than me, Chris?

-Ooh, Betty... No. Not at the moment.

I thought that was really rather good. Very, very good, actually. I might get you to do that again.

It is the right answer, I'm afraid for you, Maggie.

I'm sure you would have got that. It just didn't fall to you.

You won't be playing in the final round. Would you both come and join your teams?

As it stands then, it's all square for both teams. They've both lost one brain from the final round.

We move on to our third round of the day and this one is Science.

-Who'd like to play this?

-Go on, Sharon.

-Think it is me. Yeah.

-It's got to be you, Sharon. Is this your... You're a pharmacy student?

-Pharmacy student. Yes.

Who would you like to play from the Eggheads? CJ and Chris have played.

-So you've got Barry, Daphne or Kevin.

-I think I'll go for Daphne.

OK.

-Yeah.

-Let's have Sharon and Daphne into the question room, please.

Sharon, I don't want to put pressure on you, but tell me about the science degree.

Yeah. I've got a degree in chemistry.

-And at the moment, I've just started a degree in pharmacy.

-Wow.

-Yeah.

OK. Sharon, would you like to go first or second?

I think I'll go first, please.

Sharon, your first question.

How many humps does an Arabian camel have?

How many humps does an Arabian camel have?

Think I'm going to go for one.

It's just a bit of a guess, really.

I'm not sure what the answer is, but I'll go for one.

One. OK.

Got the right answer. Well done.

OK, Daphne.

Your first question. The triceratops dinosaur,

characterised by a great bony neck frill and three horns, had what type of diet?

Don't know. I really don't know.

I shall guess at herbivorous.

Herbivorous is the right answer. Well, done, Daphne.

-I just thought of CJ.

-Yes. What, you mean in terms of that description -

-three horns, double-headed, bony neck frill?

-Yeah.

Yeah. OK, Sharon. Second question. Good start for you both.

What type of current does a battery provide?

I think a car normally has an alternator,

so I'm going to guess with alternating,

-cos it has a battery.

-Cos it has an alternator.

Definitely a battery. OK. A battery provides a...

Not an alternating, it's a direct current.

Direct current from a battery.

So, Daphne, chance for the lead.

What name is given to the process by which heat is transmitted in the form of rays or waves?

See, I never did any of this at school.

-Is it radiation?

-OK. You're going for radiation.

Why? Because rays and radiation, they radiate.

It's the right answer. Well done. OK. Right.

You've got to get this then, Sharon.

Th is the chemical symbol for which radioactive silvery white element

that can be used as a nuclear fuel?

I'm going to go for thallium...

cos I think that's the answer.

OK. Well, no other reason. Th, chemical symbol for...

Sharon, you've moved on to pharmacy, you see. It's thorium.

-Oh, no.

-It's thorium.

-Forgot the chemistry.

-I have.

Oh, dear. Well, that's where it ends, I'm afraid.

It means, Daphne, you will be playing in the final round.

Luckier with your guessing there than Sharon. Bad luck, Sharon. So your mind's on other things now.

Would you both please come back and join your teams?

As it stands, the challengers have lost two brains now from the final round, the Eggheads have lost one.

So we move on to our last head to head before the final round.

Trying to make it all square, Aurora Borealis, and knock an Egghead out with this one, Music.

Who'd like to play that, and that's you, Adam or Elaine?

-I think it should be Adam.

-I think it's going to be you, Adam.

I'll do this one. I'll try this one, anyway.

OK, Adam. And who would you like to play from the Eggheads? We've had CJ, Chris and Daphne,

so that leaves Barry and Kevin.

I'll be really brave and try and do Kevin.

-You ARE brave.

-Yeah.

But I can tell you the last time he played a round, he lost, so maybe a good sign there.

Let's have Adam and Kevin into the question room, please.

Adam, would you like to go first or second?

I think I'm going to go second, just to change it a little bit.

OK. Kevin, here you go. Which group had a UK number-one hit single

in 1979 with I Don't Like Mondays?

It was not then Sir Bob, but later to become with The Boomtown Rats.

Yeah. There we are. Boomtown Rats. I Don't Like Mondays. Correct.

OK. First question for you then, Adam.

In which country was the tenor Jose Carreras born?

I'm not 100% certain,

but going by the name Jose, I think I'm going to opt for Spain

because it sounds Spanish,

-so that's what I'll go for.

-Jose Carreras.

Going on the name Jose and getting it right.

Spain. Correct. Good start, Adam.

Kevin, who had a UK number-one hit single in 2008 with So What?

That was Pink.

Pink is correct. Yes, So What?

And so to you, Adam.

Which female singer joined up with Boyz II Men on the 1995 single,

One Sweet Day, which held the number one spot in the US singles chart

for a record 16 weeks?

All of them have got really big, powerful, quite scary voices.

But I know that that is Mariah Carey.

Do you remember it from the teenage years?

I do, yeah. I didn't like it.

But you remembered it, that's the main thing for this quiz.

Mariah Carey is correct.

Kevin, third question each, this is yours.

Which Billie Holiday song

that protested against racism in the American South

was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1978?

I imagine...it could possibly be wrong

but I would imagine that must be Strange Fruit,

that's about lynching.

So that the Strange Fruit obviously is being bodies hanging from trees.

-Yeah.

-So I would think it must be Strange Fruit.

OK. You've got it and the explanation, thanks for that.

Strange Fruit is correct.

Billie Holiday's song, inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in '78.

Adam, 24 Hours,

released in 2008, was which singer's first new studio album for 15 years?

Well, I think that it's not Rod Stewart but I might be wrong.

I don't think it's Cliff Richard

but I think I remember seeing Tom Jones on Jools Holland,

singing some songs from the album, 24 Hours.

So I'm going to go for Tom Jones.

You know your stuff.

That's the right answer. Well done.

It's all square and we go to sudden death again.

This question for Kevin.

Which hit single by Frankie Goes To Hollywood,

features the actor Patrick Allen,

reading lines supposedly taken from the government public information film about nuclear war

called Protect And Survive?

Well, logically, I think in the same video you have people

wearing masks as Reagan and Breshnev,

at the same time.

-Two Tribes.

-Two Tribes.

It's the right answer, Kevin. Well done.

Adam, "I know the kings of England and I quote the fights historical,

"from Marathon to Waterloo, in order categorical,"

is a line from a song in which Gilbert and Sullivan operetta?

I'm not sure but I'm going to say...

-Pirates Of Penzance because I'm just going to have to guess.

-OK.

Guessing at the Pirates Of Penzance.

-It's the Pirates Of Penzance.

-Oh, brilliant.

It's the right answer. Well done.

OK. Another question each.

Kevin, which folk blues singer

first recorded the song Rock Island Line

which gave Lonnie Donegan a 3 million selling hit in 1956?

I think Rock Island Line was originally Leadbelly.

Yeah. Think it's Leadbelly.

-Leadbelly?

-Yeah.

That's the correct answer.

Adam, right,

very, very important, then.

You've got to get this to stay in the game.

Which Jamaican-born bass baritone was awarded a knighthood in 2004

for his services to music?

I really, really don't know.

I don't think he's that kind of singer but I'll say Eddy Grant.

I know it's not.

It's not Eddy Grant.

I'm sorry, Adam. Kevin?

-Willard White.

-Willard White or Sir Willard White, now.

Sir Willard Wentworth White, it is.

You won't be in the final round.

Kevin, you're there. Would you both please come back and join your teams?

So this is what we've been playing towards.

It's time for the final round which is General Knowledge,

but I'm afraid, those of you who lost your head to heads

can't take part in this round.

So Adam, Sharon and Maggie, from Aurora Borealis

and CJ, from the Eggheads, would you leave the studio, please?

So, Mike and Elaine, you're playing to win Aurora Borealis £1,000.

Kevin, Daphne, Chris and Barry, you're playing for something money can't buy,

your damaged reputation.

As usual, I'll ask each team three questions in turn.

This time, the questions are all general knowledge and you can confer.

Aurora Borealis, the question is,

are your two brains better than the Eggheads' four brains?

Mike and Elaine, would you like to go first or second?

-I think we'll go first.

-First.

-First please, Dermot.

-Here we go.

"15 men on the dead man's chest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum,"

are lines from a sailor's song in which 19th century novel?

"15 men on the dead men's chest. Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum,"

are lines from a sailor's song in which 19th century novel?

I think it's Treasure Island.

I think you're probably right. I think it's the pirates that go off

to the Treasure Island so I think you're probably right.

Treasure Island, we think.

-Treasure Island?

-We think so.

-"Yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum."

My little boy could have been writing this!

We've had Pirates Of The Caribbean, now we've got Treasure Island.

And Treasure Island is correct.

OK.

Eggheads, first question to you. "If I am to die by the bullet

"of a madman, I must do so smiling. There must be no anger within me,"

is a quotation attributed to which political figure only two days before his death?

-Said in the year I was born, it was Mahatma Gandhi.

-OK. Mahatma Gandhi.

-What year was that, Barry?

-1948.

-Know how old you are. OK, Barry. You look well on it.

-Thank you.

Mahatma Gandhi is the right answer. Well done, Eggheads.

Aurora Borealis, here's your second question.

The former England fast bowler, Angus Fraser,

became the cricket correspondent of which national newspaper in 2002?

-You're on your own here!

-You're on your own, says Elaine.

-I don't do sport.

-I don't know.

I'd be tempted to go for The Guardian.

I'm fine with that.

-As I say, you're on your own.

-We're not sure, Dermot,

but we're going to go for The Guardian.

OK. The Guardian, Angus Fraser,

from fast bowler to cricket correspondent, for...

The Independent.

It's The Independent.

So nothing there for Aurora Borealis.

How will the Eggheads do with their second question? This is it.

The Bye Plot and the Main Plot, both from 1603,

were aimed at which English monarch?

The Bye Plot and the Main Plot,

both from 1603, were aimed at which English monarch?

It was James I, Dermot.

That's the correct answer.

OK. You've got to get this now, Mike and Elaine.

Good luck with it.

What resource was mined at the archaeological site in Norfolk

known as Grimes Graves?

I wouldn't have thought it was coal.

I wouldn't have thought it was copper

because the copper mines tend...

You don't think it's coal. I don't think it's copper.

-Let's go for flint.

-OK, then.

We're in agreement.

Neither of us think it's coal,

neither of us think it's copper, so we're going to go for flint.

Flint. OK. And it's the right answer. Norfolk flint.

Taken out of Grimes Graves. OK.

Well, the Eggheads have got a chance to win the game if they get this.

According to Japanese legend, what type of creature is Namazu?

N-A-M-A-Z-U. Thought to be responsible for earthquakes.

According to Japanese legend, what type of creature is Namazu?

I'm normally very good on this one but I don't know this one.

I've not heard of it. My gut reaction would be tortoise.

That's my, again, instinctive reaction,

-but I don't know it,

-It's definitely likely to be a monkey.

I understand a catfish being responsible for tidal waves

but an earthquake?

An earthquake... It's something that's got to be squat and heavy

and a tortoise is.

-We'll just have to go for it.

-We'll have to go for it.

Well, we're not 100% certain on this one, Dermot.

-We're not at all certain.

-I think 100%'s putting it a bit...

-50%?

-We've no idea whatsoever.

30%? It's a guess.

It's a guess but an informed guess, perhaps,

-and we're going to go for tortoise.

-OK.

Namazu thought to be responsible for earthquakes - is there

going to be another earthquake in Quizland because it's incorrect.

Another question wrong in the final round from the Eggheads.

Namazu is a catfish.

It's a catfish.

We go to sudden death.

Mike and Elaine, good luck with it.

Here we go. Kapodistrias Airport, Kerkyra,

is the international airport for which Mediterranean island?

Kerkyra. K-E-R-K-Y-R-A.

Kerkyra is some sort of like Turk, something like Turkish, but...

THEY CONFER

Wasn't that like there's half of it sort of like Turkish?

Turkish Cypriot, which is what I'm thinking.

Yes. That's the only answer I can come up with. Cyprus.

Well, we can't come up with anything else.

We're thinking Cyprus, Dermot.

Cyprus.

I'm afraid you're wrong. Corfu.

-Oh, Corfu.

-Corfu, Kapodistrias Airport. Corfu.

So, another chance for the Eggheads.

Who is the author, Eggheads, of the 18th-century novel known as

Fanny Hill, which was banned from publication in the United Kingdom

until 1970, due to its saucy nature?

It was John Cleland, Dermot,

and I'll let you have your copy back in a week or so.

The answer is... the author of Fanny Hill

is John Cleland. It's the correct answer, Eggheads. You've won.

Unlucky, Aurora Borealis. Listen, let's reflect on your performance.

Really great today.

Mike, great head to head. Elaine, well played there in the final round

and look at those players behind you. Maggie, what a performance from you,

just went wrong in sudden death.

Sharon forgot chemistry, concentrating on pharmacy now.

Adam, what can I say about that?

So close to winning against Kevin. Thanks very much for playing today.

But the Eggheads have done what comes naturally,

they reign supreme over Quizland again.

You won't be going home with the £1,000

which means the money rolls over to the next show.

Eggheads, congratulations. Who will beat you?

Join us next time to see if a new team of challengers

have the brains to defeat the Eggheads.

£2,000 says they don't. Until then, goodbye.

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